Feed the Fair and help feed the world

Hamline Church has been serving hungry people at the MN State Fairgrounds since 1897. This year the church will expand the scope of its meal service to include hungry children across the world. In support of a statewide initiative by the United Methodist Church to provide more that 1 million meals for the world’s starving and undernourished children, Hamline Church pledges to donate the cost of a meal to Feed My Starving Children for every meal sold at the Hamline Church Dining Hall during the fair. Hamline Church set a goal of donating 18,000 meals during the 12 days of the fair. Donated meals go to hungry children all over the world, Feed My Starving Children (www.fmsc.org) is a Minnesota based non-profit organization that provides life-saving meals to people who need them most. A charity with a four star rating, the organization has distributed meals in nearly 70 countries through partnerships at orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps, and malnourishment centers. Hamline Church Dining Hall is the longest tenured food vendor—and one of two church dining halls—still in operation at the fair.